Tim Berners Lee:<\/p>\n
The Web as we know it<\/a>, however, is being threatened in different ways. Some of its most successful inhabitants have begun to chip away at its principles. Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web. Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals. Governments\u2014totalitarian and democratic alike\u2014are monitoring people\u2019s online habits, endangering important human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n
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If we, the Web\u2019s users, allow these and other trends to proceed unchecked, the Web could be broken into fragmented islands. We could lose the freedom to connect with whichever Web sites we want. The ill effects could extend to smartphones and pads, which are also portals to the extensive information that the Web provides.<\/p>\n
Why should you care? Because the Web is yours. It is a public resource on which you, your business, your community and your government depend. The Web is also vital to democracy, a communications channel that makes possible a continuous worldwide conversation. The Web is now more critical to free speech than any other medium. It brings principles established in the\u00a0U.S. Constitution<\/a>, the\u00a0British Magna Carta<\/a> and other important documents into the network age: freedom from being snooped on, filtered, censored and disconnected.<\/p>\n
Yet people seem to think the Web is some sort of piece of nature, and if it starts to wither, well, that\u2019s just one of those unfortunate things we can\u2019t help. Not so. We create the Web, by designing computer protocols and software; this process is completely under our control. We choose what properties we want it to have and not have. It is by no means finished (and it\u2019s certainly not dead). If we want to track what government is doing, see what companies are doing, understand the true state of the planet, find a cure for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, not to mention easily share our photos with our friends, we the public, the scientific community and the press must make sure the Web\u2019s principles remain intact\u2014not just to preserve what we have gained but to benefit from the great advances that are still to come.<\/p>\n
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Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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